The director of Hereditary and Midsommar, Ari AsteA, he revealed in a new interview that they have asked him to direct a comic film in the past: Morbius of 2022.
During an interview in Podcast with Semafor published on Friday, the famous independent filmmaker was asked if it was true that at some point they had contacted him to direct a Marvel superhero movie. “Yes, once,” confirmed the screenwriter and director. After doubting a little about whether he should reveal which one, Aster said: “They asked me to do … ‘Mobius’? ‘Morbius’?”.
In response to the comment of the media editor of Semafor, Max Tani, that Morbius It was a “great failure” and that it would have been “incredible” if Aster had directed it, “Eddington” joked: “Yes, we could have added it to my list”.
Of course, Aster did not direct Morbius. That film was starring Jared Leto as the antihero vampire of homonym comic. Was part of the Spider-Man Universe from Sony, who had a bad reception, who joined Kraven the hunter last year, Madame Web and the trilogy Venom starring Tom Hardy.
The director of Life and Safe House, Daniel Espinosaended up directing the film, which was delayed several times due to the Covid-19 pandemic before finally arriving at theaters on April 1, 2022. He received overwhelmingly negative criticism and had difficulties at the box office, raising only 167 million dollars. It became the object of numerous memes and online jokes about its quality.
Ari Aster’s works and his next project
Aster, meanwhile, has spent the last seven years producing horror films and completely original suspense with A24. His first two films, Hereditary of 2018 and Midsommar From 2019, they had a good financial performance and exceeded their low box office production budgets. Until the premiere of Everything Everywhere All At Oncewinner of the best film award, in 2022, Hereditary It even stood as the highest grossing film of A24.
Aster’s third feature film, the controversial horror tragicomedy Beau is Afraiddirected by Joaquin Phoenixhad low financial performance. The film raised only 12 million dollars, below its estimated budget of 35 million.
Two years later, Aster returns with his most stellar movie to date: the western Eddingtonset in 2020, starring Joaquin Phoenix as the sheriff of a small town of New Mexico that decides to compete against the mayor in exercise (Pedro Pascal) In the midst of confinements by COVID-19. Emma Stone, Austin Butler and Luke Grimes They also star in the film, which has received mostly positive reviews in the weeks since its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
Eddington will arrive at theaters soon.
Source: Ambito
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